Obama referred to his team of advisers as "fresh thinking," adding that the vision for change comes first and foremost from me.

President-elect Barack Obama pushed back at a press conference in Chicago today when asked how he would respond to supporters "who were looking for change," given how many of his announced and rumored appointments thus far are Clinton administration veterans.

When it comes to the people that we've pulled together -- because I know this has been sort of conventional wisdom floating around Washington -- that, well, you know, there's a recycling of people who were in the Clinton administration, Obama replied, referring specifically to the economic team he introduced on Monday. And so it would be surprising if I selected a Treasury secretary who had had no connection with the last Democratic administration because that would mean that the person had no experience in Washington whatsoever.

All we have to celebrate about this guy so far is that he hasn’t appointed many out-and-out rabid leftists to any high profile positions. In the wake of the election and the campaign Hussein ran (especially in the primaries) we are all thankful for what appear to be some small favors.

But we still don’t know how he will govern. He has promised quite a few things and the economic mess may well prove to be an obstacle to his implementing some of his gems of change (we can only hope). But there are still plenty of things he can do to foul the waters especially in areas like life issues, depravity as a civil right and, of course, the emasculation of the military and a retreat in the war on Islamic aggression. And watching this bunch adminstering hundreds of billions of dollars in “economic stimulus” or “economic relief” funds ought to be a real treat. And amnesty for millions awaits.

If Hussein really does think of himself as some stellar figure destined to lead America into the light we are in real trouble.

Did anyone hear the caller to Rush — about an hour after this news conference — who said he’d voted for Obama because of Obama’s “humility”. Rush pretty much hung up on him, and he almost never does that!

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posted on 11/26/2008 1:29:34 PM PST
by MayflowerMadam
(We have elected a man ... who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen. - Dollard post)

Malignant Narcissim is a GREAT song by Rush (the rock band). I just hope Obama doesnt ruin it by taking it for his theme song! Although it would fit - it sounds great but has no real meaning. (It’s an instrumental!)

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats." - P.J. O'Rourke

He needs to do a lot more of it. I, for the most part, change stations when he takes calls now days. He used to have no patience for sycophantic callers. Now he lets them drone on forever about how much they love him.

He used to tightly manage that aspect of the show with seminars for callers and the shtick about the purpose of the caller being to make the host look good. He seems to have forgotten all of that, and will let any idiot or conspiracy theorist babble on and on for whole segments.

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posted on 11/26/2008 1:41:34 PM PST
by Minn
(Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()

I’ve noticed the same response by Hannity, and Levin to some extent, recently. The caller will start off sweetly sucking up to the host, then start with a sing-song whine about “give Obama a chance”, blah blah blah. The host just listens and is overly polite. I, too, cannot stand it and turn the stations more than I used to.

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posted on 11/26/2008 1:47:18 PM PST
by MayflowerMadam
(We have elected a man ... who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen. - Dollard post)

So far advisers have created an Office of the President-elect thus proving that they can modify the Constitution at will. (So much for that "defective" section that speaks of that natural born thingy.)

After a months-long, Hollywood-created aura of "the President" it continues -- and IMO makes a big joke out of Obama.

Is this going to be some kind of reality show? A reality version of West Wing?

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posted on 11/26/2008 2:20:19 PM PST
by WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)

Hannity is the one who drives me batsh*t with seminar callers. He had one yesterday who lied about being a conservative and came off as a complete moonbat, and the Leprechaun just sat there and took it. Levin would have had this posers’ nuts on a platter. I’m just glad I’ve got Dennis Miller and Steve Malzberg instead of Hannity.

Oooooh! Don’t get me started on Hugo! Talk about Malignant Narcissism! He has single-handedly turned that country into a stinkhole and his “followers” have gotten so used to the stink they can’t even smell it. The stinking tenements that are STILL there after years of HIM remind me of the MILLIONS State Senator Obama got diverted to Rezko to build all the boarded-up tenements in Chicago. I think one of those is still open and maybe they’re trying to keep it as an example of all they’ve accomplished.

How many people saw the PBS Frontline story about Venezuela and Chavez? The particularly interesting part is the way Chavez plays his ministers as the bad guys all the time, in public ... It’s never his fault.

Obamunism is warmed over communism, following the Chavez model. Aha, you say, now you know why the liberals were all fawning over the thug Chavez for the last few years. Watch the video, and get back to me.

Regardless of what we all think of Obama, the headline here is grammatically dishonest. The subject of the sentence was “vision” - the vision comes from Obama. “Change” was part of a prepositional phrase. He did not say what the title says he did - it’s a distortion.

I’m all about criticism and ridicule of the One (after all, see my tagline), but it needs to be based in truth.

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posted on 11/26/2008 3:52:39 PM PST
by xjcsa
(And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)

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